Pat’s Point of View

I have shunned my iPod for too long (work, work, work!) so I thought it’s time to inspect my music library. The upgrade to iTunes 7 went well, compared to some of the stories I’ve heard, and I like it’s new features. In particular I spent an obsessed few hours adding album art to all my songs, it was quite a challenge for some of the things I’ve collected over the years!

Top 10 most played songs

1. No Other Way - Jack Johnson
2. The Dark End of the Street - The Commitments
3. Rescue Me - Fontella Bass
4. Better Together - Jack Johnson
5. I Love You More Than I Ever Had - Ray Charles
6. Banana Pancakes - Jack Johnson
7. (Sweet Sweet Baby) Since You’ve Been Gone - Aretha Franklin
8. Signed, Sealed, Delivered I’m Yours - Stevie Wonder
9. Never Know - Jack Johnson

Top 10 most played artists

1. Jack Johnson
2. Aretha Franklin
3. Diana Ross & The Supremes
4. The Commitments
5. U2
6. Elvis Presley
7. Craig David
8. Guns N’ Roses
9. Destiny’s Child
10. Michael Jackson

Top 5 most recently acquired albums

1. Back to Basics - Christina Aguilera
2. Chinese Democracy - Guns N’ Roses
3. Collision Course - Jay-Z/Linkin Park
4. Greatest Hits - Linda Ronstadt
5. Harley and Rose - The Black Sorrows

These stats really make me question how iTunes handles having two users sharing the same library, as this is clearly skewed towards Jenn’s listening habits (I mean, come on, Jack Johnson?!).

This is also a flaw with iPhoto etc in that they haven’t made it easy at all to share the one library across the multiple users of one machine, which you’re going to have happen in a home PC environment. As a matter of fact even getting it to chare the library involved too much mucking around (CHMOD and CHOWN have no place in a home PC!).

ps: I’m using Doug’s Scripts to extract stats now, rather than the overly complex way I use to. Even better would be SQLtunes which will export play stats into a mySQL database so you can analyse them properly (thank heavens for the GROUP BY clause!). Too bad the old mySQL database I have running is not accessible from my Mac :(

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